The Matrimonial Trap : Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage.
The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-ce...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Bucknell University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. Eighteenth-Century Marriage in Crisis?; CHAPTER 1. INTIMACY, IDENTITY, AND MARITAL CHOICE: The Osborne-Temple Correspondence; CHAPTER 2. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: The Power of Self-Fashioning; CHAPTER 3. HESTER CHAPONE AS A LIVING CLARISSA IN LETTERS ON FILIAL OBEDIENCE AND A MATRIMONIAL CREED; CHAPTER 4. "PERFECT FRIENDSHIP": Mary Delany, Companionacy, and Control; CHAPTER 5. DUTY AND SENTIMENT IN SARAH SCOTT'S THE TEST OF FILIAL DUTY; CHAPTER 6. ELIZA HAYWOOD: The Limits of Feminine Agency; AFTERWORD. From Clarissa Harlowe to Elizabeth Bennet; NOTES.